NEENextEra Energy
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: heavy debt (BB) and typical volatility.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -45% · now 20% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can NEE take a bad year?
NextEra Energy carries $101.1B of net debt at 6.70× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 6.70×
Net debt / EBITDA · 6.50× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 1.87×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 25%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $103.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $2.00B
- Net debt
- $101.1B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $15.1B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $8.23B
- Debt / equity
- 1.87×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.84×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −45%
- Below its 52-week high
- 20%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Utilities, Regulated Electric
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